V. A. TISHKOV

Scientific supervisor of the N.N. Miklukho-Maklai Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology of the RAS, member of the Presidium of the RAS, academician-secretary of Department of Historical and Philological Sciences of the RAS, Academician of the RAS, Dr. Sc. (History), Professor, Honored Worker of Science of the Russian Federation. Author of more than 500 scientific publications, including monographs and textbooks: “Requiem for Ethnicity. Studies in Socio-Cultural Anthropology”, “Political Anthropology”, “Society in Armed Conflict”, “Russian People: History and Meaning of National Consciousness”, “Ethnicity, Nationalism and Conflict in the USSR and After”, “The Russian National Idea”, “State National Policy of the Russian Federation” (co-authored); encyclopedias “The Peoples of Russia” (Editor-in-Chief) and “The Peoples and Religions of the World” (Editor-in-Chief), etc. Member of the editorial boards of the journals Bulletin of the RAS, Ethnographic Review, etc. Recipient of state prizes of the Russian Federation, the Demidov Prize. Awarded the Orders of Honor, Friendship, Alexander Nevsky, the Medal for Labor Achievements.